RALPH J. MILLS, JR.,
Essays on Poetry.
MOMUS, The Book of Jokes.
CHRISTINE MONTALBETTI, Western.
OLIVE MOORE, Spleen.
NICHONS MOSLEY, Accident.
Assassins.
Catastrophe Practice.
Children of Darkness and Light.
Experience and Religion.
God’s Hazard.
The Hesperides Tree.
Hopeful Monsters.
Imago Bird.
Impossible Object.
Inventing God.
Judith.
Look at the Dark.
Natalie Natalia.
Paradoxes of Peace.
Serpent.
Time at War.
The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades.
WARREN MOTTE,
Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990.
Fiction Now: The French Novel in the 21st Century.
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature.
GERALD MURNANE, Barley Patch.
YVES NAVARRE, Our Share of Time.
Sweet Tooth.
DOROTHY NELSON, ln Night’s City.
Tar and Feathers.
ESHKOL NEVO, Homesick.
WILPRIDO D. NOLLEDO, But for the Lovers.
FLANN O’BRIEN,
At Swim-Two-Birds.
At War.
The Best of Myles.
The Dalkey Archive.
Further Cuttings.
The Hard Life.
The Poor Mouth.
The Third Policeman.
CLAUDE OLLIER, The Mise-en-Scène.
Wert and the Life Without End.
PATRIK OUEDNÍK, Europeana.
The Opportune Moment, 1855.
BORIS PAHOR, Necropolis.
FERNANDO DEL PASO,
News from the Empire.
Palinuro of Mexico.
ROBERT PINGET, The Inquisitory.
Mahu or The Material.
Trio.
A. G. PORTA, The No World Concerto.
MANUEL PUIG,
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth.
The Buenos Aires Affair.
Heartbreak Tango.
RAYMOND QUENEAU, The Last Days.
Odile.
Pierrot Mon Ami.
Saint Glinglin.
ANN QUTN, Berg.
Passages.
Three.
Tripticks.
ISHMAEL REED,
The Free-Lance Pallbearers.
The Last Days of Louisiana Red.
Ishmael Reed: The Plays.
Juice!
Reckless Eyeballing.
The Terrible Threes.
The Terrible Twos.
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.
JOÃO UBALDO RIBEIRO, House of the Fortunate Buddhas.
JEAN RICARDOU, Place Names.
RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
JUHÁN RÍOS, The House of Ulysses.
Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel.
Poundemonium.
Procession of Shadows.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS, I the Supreme.
DANIËL ROBBERECHTS,
Arriving in Avignon.
JEAN ROLIN, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose.
OLIVIER ROLIN, Hotel Crystal.
ALIX CLEO ROUBAUD, Alix’s Journal.
JACQUES ROUBAUD, The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart.
The Great Fire of London.
Hortense in Exile.
Hortense Is Abducted.
The Loop.
Mathématique:
The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis.
The Princess Hoppy.
Some Thing Black.
LEON S. ROUDIEZ, French Fiction Revisited.
RAYMOND ROUSSEL, Impressions of Africa.
VEDRANA RUDAN, Night.
STTG SÆTERBAKKEN, Siamese.
LYDIE SALVAYRE, The Company of Ghosts.
Everyday Life.
The Lecture.
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal.
The Power of Flies.
LUIS RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ,
Macho Camacho’s Beat.
SEVERO SARDUY, Cobra & Maitreya.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE,
Do You Hear Them?
Martereau.
The Planétarium.
ARNO SCHMIDT, Collected Novellas.
Collected Stories.
Nobodaddy’s Children.
Two Novels.
ASAF SCHURR, Motti.
CHRISTINE SCHUTT, Nightwork.
GAIL SCOTT, My Paris.
DAMION SEARLS, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going.
JUNE AKERS SEESE,
Is This What Other Women Feel Too?
What Waiting Really Means.
BERNARD SHARE, Inish.
Transit.
AURELIE SHEEHAN,
Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.
VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY, Bowstring.
Knight’s Move.
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917–1922.
Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot.
Literature and Cinematography.
Theory of Prose.
Third Factory.
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love.
CLAUDE SIMON, The Invitation.
PIERRE SINIAC, The Collaborators.
KJERSTI A. SKOMSVOLD, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am.
JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ, The Engineer of Human Souls.
GILBERT SORRENTINO,
Aberration of Starlight.
Blue Pastoral.
Crystal Vision.
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things.
Mulligan Stew.
Pack of Lies.
Red the Fiend.
The Sky Changes.
Something Said.
Splendide-Hôtel.
Steelwork.
Under the Shadow.
W. M. SPACKMAN,
The Complete Fiction.
ANDEZEJ STASIUIK Dukla.
Fado.
GERTEUDE STEIN,
Lucy Church Amiably.
The Making of Americans.
A Novel of Thank You.
LARS SVENDSEN, A Philosophy of Evil
PIOTR SZEWC, Annihilation.
GONÇALO M. TAVARES, Jerusalem.
Joseph Walser’s Machine.
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique.
LUCIAN DAN TEODOROVICI,
Our Circus Presents …
NIKANOE TERATOLOGEN, Assisted Living.
STEFAN THEMERSON, Hobson’s Island. The Mystery of the Sardine. Tom Harris.
JOHN TOOMEY, Sleepwalker.
JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT,
The Bathroom.
Camera.
Monsieur.
Running Away.
Self-Portrait Abroad.
Television.
The Truth about Marie.
DUMITEU TSEPENEAG,
Hotel Europa.
The Necessary Marriage.
Pigeon Post.
Vain Art of the Fugue.
ESTHER TUSQUETS, Stranded.
DUBEAVKA UGRESIC,
Lend Me Your Character.
Thank You for Not Reading.
MATI UNT, Brecht at Night.
Diary of a Blood Donor.
Things in the Night.
ÁLVARO UEIBE AND OLIVIA SEARS, EDS.,
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction.
ELOY URROZ, Friction.
The Obstacles.
LUISA VALENZUELA, Dark Desires and the Others.
He Who Searches.
MARJA-LIISA VARTIO,
The Parson’s Widow.
PAUL VERHAEGHEN, Omega Minor.
AGLAJA VETERANYI, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta.
BORIS VIAN, Heartsnatcher.
LLORENÇ VILLALONGA, The Dolls’ Room.
OENELA VOEPSI, The Country Where No One Ever Dies.
/> AUSTRYN WAINHOUSE, Hedyphagetica.
PAUL WEST,
Words for a Deaf Daughter & Gala.
CURTIS WHITE,
America’s Magic Mountain.
The Idea of Home.
Memories of My Father Watching TV.
Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics.
Requiem.
DIANE WILLIAMS, Excitability: Selected Stories.
Romancer Erector.
DOUGLAS WOOLF, Wall to Wall.
Ya! & John-Juan.
JAY WEIGHT, Polynomials and Pollen.
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence.
PHILIP WYLIE, Generation of Vipers.
MARGUERITE YOUNG, Angel in the Forest.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
REYOUNG, Unbabbling.
VLADO ŽABOT, The Succubus.
ZORAN ŽIVKOVIC, Hidden Camera.
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Collected Fiction.
VITOMIL ZUPAN, Minuet for Guitar.
SCOTT ZWIREN, God Head.
Originally published in French as Autoportrait by P.O.L éditeur, 2005
Copyright © 2005 by P.O.L éditeur
Translation copyright © 2012 by Lorin Stein
First edition, 2012
Second printing, 2012
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Levé, Édouard.
[Autoportrait. English]
Autoportrait / Edouard Leve ; translated by Lorin Stein. -- 1st ed.
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“Originally published in French as Autoportrait by P.O.L. editeur, 2005.”
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